The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.