I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.