All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

The good thing about being numb is that no one can hurt you, but the bad thing about being numb is that no one can love you.

God has a need one that only mankind can fulfil

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.

It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.

Remember, at the time God gives us a vision, we never have the resources available to accomplish it. We don't have the people, the money, the knowledge, or the opportunity.

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

A month of days, a year of months, 20 years of months in the treadmill, is the life that slays everything worthy of the name of life.