No good story is quite true.

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.

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

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.

It is wise to consider a matter carefully before jumping in carelessly.

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.

We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.

As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar.

Infinite money is available to a mind that is ready, willing, able, qualified and gives itself permission to earn and accept it.

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel 'cause i love you

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines