Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

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.

When it's right it's never too late, when it's wrong it's always too soon

We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.

If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.

I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away.

Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.