Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

The purpose creates the machine.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

History is more or less bunk.

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

I think it's important for women to be around other women and learn from each other.

I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.