The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.