"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."

"Religion is pickled God."

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another."

"If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted."

"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

"We compound our suffering by victimizing each other."

"It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable."

"To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions."