Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

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.

Always be a beginner at something, and always be in love with what you are beginning.

Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer

Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious? I mean, that makes me want to kill somebody.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Let go of what you can't control. Channel all that energy into living fully in the now.

Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.

Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you