"He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke."

"Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness"

"He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty"

"Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic."

"Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice."

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt."

"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."

"Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive."

"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious."

"Extract the eternal from the ephemeral."

"Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will."

"A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two"

"In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means."

"The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating."

"You mind Ralph," she called back to Bubber. "Mind the gnats don't sit on his eyelids."

"No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it."

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."

"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."

"Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end."

"The essence of lying is in deception, not in words."

"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."

"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."