All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

A man without a sweet tooth is not to be trusted.

A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.

What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?

Reach out a hand to your brother, for the unselfish look out for their fellow man.