I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don't succeed

My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.

We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they are.

Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

It’s very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.