If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Time has only a relative existence.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.