All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.

Is it alright to believe in the future where everyone can live in happiness?

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.

Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.