Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

And, after all, you’ve got to live.”“Not that way, ” said Roark.

A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.

Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

Women in America work so hard and not all of them get their shot. And I feel like I worked hard, but I also got my opportunity, which puts in a different category of blessings.

A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.