"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"The quest for philosophy's beginning is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty, and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels."

"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."

"Not to see many things, not to hear them, not to let them approach one--first piece of ingenuity, first proof that one is no accident but a necessity."

"I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity."

"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."

"Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?"

"Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

"Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them."

"Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax."

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

"Imagination rules the world."