Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.