If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.