You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

An idea is salvation by imagination

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Genius is sorrow's child.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Be that self which one truly is.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Common sense is not so common.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.