The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.
How wise must one be to be always kind.
Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Genius points the way, talent takes it.
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
Everybody is doing the same old thing.
It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.
The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.