I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.