“God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.”

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Every new time will give its law.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

A form if it breathes some, if it has some enigma to it, it is also the enigma that is the abstract, I would think.

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

All forms of commerce are adversarial.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.