Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

Many men are broken in spirit because of bitterness.

Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.

What's the matter? What's the antimatter? Does it antimatter?

The confusion created by mode of fictitious imagery, staged to produce a perceived idea of character or life, does only that - confuses.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.

All was glorious - a cloudless sky above, a most delicious view around. . . . How great is our good fortune! I care not what may be the condition of the earth; it is the sky that is for me now.

The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.

Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.

An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.