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

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.

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

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

He who knows most believes the least.

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.

We can only learn to love by loving.

What we need, is a break out. Out of our lives, out of Seattle, out of the dumb script of girl.

Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.

Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.