The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

The purpose creates the machine.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Curiosity is the art of creativity.

...I do not want art for a few

You can accomplish great things by attempting great things.

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

I might have practiced stick-handling with my head up a bit more.

I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual.

I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about.