It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.
Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult and tyrannize over little people; this being the means which they use to recompense themselves for their extreme servility and condescension to their superiors; for nothing can be more reasonable than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them which they themselves pay to all above them.
I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.