Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

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.

If nightmares can come true, and sometimes they do... then so can our happiest dreams.

It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

Care is a state in which something does matter it is the source of human tenderness.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.

Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!