Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
We are what we repeatedly do.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.