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.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

All our dreams can manifest in life not because we are white or black, but because we believe.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

It is so easy to convince others

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Russia is new in terms of nuclear. America is old.

I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal