"I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since."

"A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion."

"For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief."

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."

"What breaks in a moment may take years to mend."

"Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience."

"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."

"Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment."

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."