Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?'

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.