Wisdom

Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.

Triumphant moments are for wise thinkers...

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use 'power words' and see for yourself.

It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference between what is of God and what is not. Such a person can often point out false teachings or false teachers—he has an almost uncanny ability to perceivehypocrisy, shallowness, deceit, or phoniness.

But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.

And don't worry about losing. If I is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away.

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.

On Tony Gwynn: it was a wonder that such an exuberant man could be so patient.

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

Maybe they’re not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen.And that better thing is us.

... Science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again my memory echoes…my people die for lack of knowledge.