I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.