"It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it..."

"For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started!"

"You know what I think my best quality is? I think I'm nice to have around. I'd hate it if I weren't around!"

"Your stupidity is appalling!" "Most stupidity is!"

"Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts."

"Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year."

"The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it."

"[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived."

"He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke."

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."

"Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing."

"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last"

"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."

"The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions."

"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us"

"It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it."

"Nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing."

"In the morning it was morning and I was still alive."

"We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting"

"My beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world."

"The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable."

"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire"

"Inspiration comes of working every day."