Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

True education gives a child wings to fly in his imaginative blue sky.

It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

To be here is immense.

I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.