"Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest."

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

"Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword."

"Prejudice is ignorance."

"Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half."

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."

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

"If you rest, you rust."

"The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important."

"A dead atheist is someone who's all dressed up with no place to go."

"I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely."

"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."