We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Thinking Breeds Inventions and Innovations.

Submission is a tyrannical discipline.

When you knock off work tonight, go looking for Toby, because, trust me, he will be looking for you.

Wyatt didn't want it, but without his permission, his heart started beating again. It had always beat for Tabitha.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

I love clothes so much, I always have. It's awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.

When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.