Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

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.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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.

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

You say that I'm nobody, and you agree that nobody's perfect.Based on logic, I'm a perfect person according to your opinion.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

It's so much fun to interact together.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.

People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.