Small things affects small minds.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

We are taught words, not ideas.

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.