Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...

If hate motivates your life, you'll never know the meaning of true love

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

I am the epitome of what you dream to be and the reality of what you can't be.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.

When we grew up in Vancouver our friends were - I don't know if I'd say callous, but we had a very, you know, harsh relationship with one another; we'd constantly make fun of each other.