Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

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.

Bellybuttons are our link with the past.

All personal god, yours or mine, are false. Unto existence nothing but an infinite oneness walks.

[photography]... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way.

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

I hate children! I hate them all!

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

I respect your right to hold your religious beliefs, and if they help you, I think that's great. I would, however, like to inform you that you are a raving kook.