Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Vigorous writing is concise.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.