And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.