Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

I wish I were supernaturally strong 

so I could put right everything that is wrong.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, 

and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment 

and even depression, 

and then by renewed enthusiasm.

If we have not peace within ourselves, 

it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, 

and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand 

than space is with stars.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; 

and different beliefs are distinguished by 

the different modes of action to which they give rise.

The public will believe anything, 

so long as it is not founded on truth.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. 

It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, 

not the top.

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty 

that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; 

that it pleases if we also do not possess it 

and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Invention, 

it must be humbly admitted, 

does not consist in creating out of void, 

but out of chaos.

There is frequently more to be learned 

from the unexpected questions of a child 

than the discourses of men.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

There is much to be said for failure. 

It is much more interesting than success.

I have fun with ideas; 

I play with them.

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, 

and the one which best lends itself 

to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humour and truth.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

All deception 

in the course of life 

is indeed nothing else 

but a lie reduced to practice, 

and falsehood passing from words into things.

I cannot summon up inspiration; 

I myself am summoned.

My own way of thinking 

is to ponder long 

and I hope deeply 

on problems 

and for a long time 

which I keep away for years and years 

and I never really let them go.

Knowledge comes, 

but wisdom lingers.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete 

until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

Truth is in things, 

and not in words.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

The pilgrim is humble and devout, 

and human, 

and charitable, 

and ready to smile and admire; 

therefore, 

he should comprehend the whole of his way, 

the people in it, 

and the hills and the clouds, 

and the habits of the various cities.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life 

which He has inflicted upon men, 

He would kill Himself.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, 

but very difficult when you do.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; 

and literature is one of the best allies of virtue 

and promoters of happiness.

I arise in the morning torn between 

a desire to improve the world 

and a desire to enjoy the world. 

This makes it hard to plan the day.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, 

in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, 

or the cry of the critic for five.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty 

of keeping awake 

the sense of wonder in the world.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

On the choice of friends, 

Our good or evil name depends.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

But if thought corrupts language, 

language can also corrupt thought.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify 

we give the name of knowledge.

Art must take reality by surprise.