"It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent."

"There is no glory in otustripping donkeys."

"Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men."

"The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things."

"Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today."

"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."

"Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire."

"No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."

"Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."

"What the great ones do, the less will prattle of"

"He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees."

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."