The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.

World Christians are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served.

A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.

Wisdom considers not only the cost of a choice, but also its value.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.