"Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason."

"If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price."

"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors."

"Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be."

"Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!"

"Never argue with a fool. Listeners can't tell which is which."

"Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather."

"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence."

"To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

"In moderate doses melancholy can be strangley comforting, darkly sweet; it can by providing contrast, give an exquisitely sharp edge to happiness, especially to pleasures of the flesh."