I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Awareness brings its sacred wonders.

You become a true philanthropist only when you empty yourself to be a blessing to others without expecting anything in return

He could inspire ballads. He could inspire wars.

If you would be a reader read if a writer write.

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

I wish the press was fair. They're really dishonest. The media is really dishonest. It's incredible.

You cannot live by feelings and emotions; you have to live by your intuition and consciousness.

It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.