One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?

I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about.

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

Yes. I appreciate the helpful and long spreadsheet with all the many places you can't go.

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

Matthew Arnold made the horrible prophecy that literature would increasingly replace religion.

I do not wish to travel around the world. I already have the world trying to travel around me.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

He who believes not in your quest should not sail with you, so that he won't sink your ship