Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.

Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

By the work one knows the workmen.

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

My candle burns at both ends;<br> It will not last the night;<br> But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends,<br> It gives a lovely light.

...For the unquiet heart and brain,<br> A use in measured language lies.