There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
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.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
Genius is sorrow's child.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Common sense is not so common.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
