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.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.