You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.