To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

The revelation of God is the fuel for the fire of our worship

I like being behind the scene.

Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.