Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.