Make yourself necessary to somebody.

There is a crack in everything God has made.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

I like the silent church before the service begins better than any preaching.

In skating over thin ice it is our speed that saves us.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.