"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."

"Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."

"There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins."

"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear."

"It is a enduring truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."

"Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are."

"But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes."