Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

My fear whispered to me, I am just trying to protect you.I whispered back, I know, but I’m stronger than you think.

The point is to be free, not to be crazy.

It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable faith means believing the unbelievable and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin.