Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah’s flood.

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!

What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.