The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

Library: A place where the dead lie.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.

When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.