The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

There are so many futures still to dawn!

When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

He kissed me. He kissed me like a thousand promises were being exchanged through that one kiss.

Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress.

I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.

I'm very neurotic about shaving. I shave first thing in the morning before a shoot, and if I have dinner that night, I have to shave again.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.

I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. Im not sure its even possible.

He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.