A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.

It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.

Power rests in tranquillity.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.

I don't want to judge, but I've also met women who think it's cool to be out or away from their baby, and I don't get that.

The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.

Insult me all you want. Judge me as much as you want. Say what you think, everything you want. But one thing. Dont touch my fans.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

I didn't say anything. Got nothing to say. I'm a married man; I don't need a relationship with another man.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.