The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

Some people are born very far from home.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.