It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

My Opinion Is Just Opinion

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

If you're not excited by it, why do you do it?

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

It's not about knowing the key to success, but knowing how to use it and which doors to open

One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.

An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling.

I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.