"Thoughts come through people, not from them."

"Everything in the world has a spirit which is released by its sound."

"Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use."

"Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance."

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself."

"Know people for who they are rather than for what they are."

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."

"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station."

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

"By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up."

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

"No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast."