The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.