What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

Every great change is simple.

Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.