"Moral victories don't count."

"It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie."

"And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone."

"Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels."

"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."

"The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely."

"Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."

"Eternity is very long, especially towards the end."

"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."