Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation.

Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?

The market didn't define the music the music defined the market.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.

I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.