It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

If at first you don't succeed, try management. Indecision is the key to flexibility. If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

It is perhaps true that that sort of sexual energy wanes over time - as the original impetus loses its luster. And then, I suppose, it's on to the next thing. But eros is eternal, like joy.

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.