... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.