"When you don't know what you are doing, you don't know when to quit."

"When kids hit the age of one, they're like miniature drunks. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh, then two minutes later they're crying. They drool."

"One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious."

"I only drink fortified wines during bad weather. Snowstorm, hurricane, tornado--I'm not particular, as long as it's bad. After all, any storm for a Port."

"Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue."

"It is generally true that, the more preparations one has for an event, the more inconveniently fast the event will occur."

"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."

"Above all, try something."

"Science is but the statement of truth found out."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy."

"Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided."