First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

He who knows most believes the least.

In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.

Society prepares the crime the criminal commits it.

Don’t try to fly if you are worry about landing on the earth.

The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart?

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.