Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

The more you hate, more you think about it, more you increase your own stress.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.