"Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security."

"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."

"Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance."

"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."

"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority..."

"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also."

"You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail."

I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.

"Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing."

"When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy."

"I shall be telling this with a sigh - Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference"

"Well Acquainted With the Night"

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers. Scripps: No. Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

I think of literature,' she wrote, 'as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never reach. And I have started to late. I will never catch up.

The transmission of knowledge is in itself an erotic act.

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both”

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge....

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ... but to weigh and consider.