The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

We will always have enough reasons to justify what we believe and what we do not believe.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.

Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

I'm world champion, baby!

All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

Coffee is cheap, drinks are an audition, lunch is an interview, but dinner means business; the business of romance.