I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.