Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?

My advice: just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.