What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.