Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a read more

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it read more

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes read more

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes you go beyond the norm.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity read more

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than read more

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.