The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Life is too short to spend on a book you don't enjoy.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.

Why are you such an asshat?" "An asshat?" Jace looked as if he were about to laugh.

If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true.

We're taught to value ourselves not by the good we do but by the shoes we wear.

Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.

But I think the more you eat healthy clean foods the more you create them.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part of the challenge. You have to cultivate that authenticity everyday.