Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Boards don't hit back.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.