I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.
If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
I hope others take as much pride in the sport as I do.
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.