Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has even been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself.

The poet's darling.

Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384 [John] Wycliffe's doctrine of "dominion founded in grace" was a peculiar feature of his system. He taught that God, as the great feudal superior of the universe, allotted to all earthly authorities their rule in fief as subject to Himself. The priesthood was not an office of dominion, but of service, and its prerogatives ceased when service was not rendered. Dominion was not granted to one person as God's Vicar on earth, but the King was as much God's Vicar as the Pope; nay, every Christian held his rights immediately of God.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

A cleere conscience is a sure carde.

The Sick Stag A sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living. Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven.

Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.