Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

If the past is no longer presentis it fiction?

King John was not a good man, He had his little ways.And sometimes no one spoke to him, For days and days and days.

For the sense of smell almost more than any other has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.

Music is my first love.

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

I don't want to stop bringing out music.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

My arm bones looked like chicken bones.

A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.