The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.