Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.