Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.

A pigs and pain, until you really get to know 'em. Then he's a paid with the soul.

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.

We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and then we kneel and believe.

The comic book world is a tough business.

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.

Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it.

I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.