Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

Oh, the cleverness of me!

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.