There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster..

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods..

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them m….

By 40, all women are amazing..

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself..

Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every id….

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of….

I lived and languished..

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are..

Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather se….

Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable ….

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how….

Words will be just words till you bring them to life.

I am occasionally loveable but for the most part I’m like loving a raincloud..

The simpler things are, the happier they are..

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier..

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets..

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything.

3-D movies can make me nauseous..

Because love, love never finishes..

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery..