The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

At this point therefore let us begin our narrative, without adding any more to what has already been said; for it would be foolish to lengthen the preface while cutting short the history itself.

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses.. wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ! My wife was the VERY LAST woman to join the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses!

That thou mayest win to the sweetness of God's love, I set here three degrees of love, in the which thou shouldst be aye waxing. The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular. Thy love is insuperable when nothing may overcome it, that is, neither weal, nor woe, nor anguish, just of flesh nor the liking of this world... Thy love is inseparable when all thy thoughts and thy wills are gathered together and fastened wholly in Jesus Christ, so that thou mayest no time forget Him, but aye thou thinkest on Him... Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.