Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.