The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is the Man Thinking.

It is not a tax bill but a tax relief bill providing relief not for the needy, but for the greedy.

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say: Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

There's nothing sadder than an old hipster.

So there was a new breed of adventurers, urban adventurers who drifted out at night looking for action with a black man's code to fit their acts. The hipster had absorbed the existentialist synapses of the Negro, and for practical purpose could be considered a white Negro.

Monday's child is fair of face, / Tuesday's child is full of grace, / Wednesday's child is full of woe, / Thursday's child has far to go, / Friday's child is loving and giving, / Saturday's child has to work for its living, / But a child that's born on the Sabbath day, / Is fair and wise and good and gay.