[M]an when not stimulated by hope or necessity is naturally a lazy…

[P]hilosophy is not a matter for adjustment, as a means, to national requirements, but every nation and individual that cultivates philosophy should aim at having a true philosophy.

The teacher's equipment gives him an everlasting job. His work is never done. His getting ready for this work is never quite complete.

Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic, but we'll hope for the best.

Thy soft-breathed hopes with magic might Have chased from my soul the shades of night

It may be we shall know in the hereafter Why we, begetting hopes, give birth to fears, And why the world's too beautiful for laughter, Too gross for tears.

I hope they all go out like Kilkenny cats...