“Evil is only good perverted.”

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.

At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

For me as an actor, there’s only so many things I can do, and this is a way, through a film, to teach and hopefully get the message out to young kids.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.