And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

You love someone, not because of what they are, but because of how you feel about them.

Don’t let the situation say stop to your true purpose

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

Restaurants that have health-conscious consumers will pay attention to this.

I've gotta say that there's very little that I miss about being a beast, if I'm being totally honest. It's just not a fun experience to go through.

Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.