If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.

The poet should touch our heart by showing his own

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

Hatred makes you weak where else love makes you vulnerable. There's a difference.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

It's not easy to define poetry.

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they’ll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it.

And she already has her treasure: it’s you.

I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do.

Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.