There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.

To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.

Literature is the expression of society.

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.

The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.

Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.

It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!

Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.'My plan was indeed to stay there forever.

Jesus preached to crowds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, in order to make only twelve of them into His disciples, He took time to work with each person individually

It would have been magical I was sure, if I hadn't caught my marshmallow on fire and dropped it on his shoe.

Be grateful for your journey because it is yours alone.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

Those who tell you it's tough at the top have never been at the bottom.

I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.

I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.