Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Edward Cocker

Resting for me is fitness training.

Jenson Button

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

Eugene Delacroix

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

Virginia Woolf

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,

Gregory Nunn

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

Edmond de Goncourt

The best way to predict the future is to create

Abraham Lincoln

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

Oscar Wilde

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

Thomas Henry Huxley

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Charles Dudley Warner

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Thomas Babington Macaulay