By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish.

“It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.” 

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” 

“But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.” 

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.” 

“we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others” 

“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.” 

“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.” 

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

“As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.” 

“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ” 

“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.” 

Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another’s dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

I do not wish more external goods, — neither possessions, nor honors, nor powers, nor persons. The gain is apparent; the tax is certain.

“I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.” 

“I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.” 

“It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.”