"There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall."

"And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree"

"Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest"

"Silence is become his mother tongue."

"The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind."

"The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms."

"The weakest soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast"

"Those that think must govern those that toil."

"Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them."

"No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change."

"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."

"It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest."

"How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment."

"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."

"Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent."

"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."

"There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."

"If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere."

"Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared."

"Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better."

"I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'."

"There's nothing wrong with being fired."

"I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out."