An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

If you are in ‘motion’ than you are in a normal [moving] state, and if you are ‘emotional’ than you are in an agitated state.

How dare you come into my home? And hurt my family? I ought to tear your throat out right here, right now!

We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.

Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.

Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.

The capitalist priority is efficiency of capital and profitability, which is generally inconsistent with protecting the vulnerabilities of people and nature.

You fiddle lucker!' she cried.