Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you’re driving at another.
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
We don’t bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don’t dress well and we’ve no manners.
A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
People exaggerate the value of things they haven’t got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.