"In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."

"All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."

"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one."

"When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."

"Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints."

"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."

"There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey."

"Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others."

"Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it."

"The problem isn't easy access to guns, but easy access to oxygen. Certain people shouldn't be breathing."

"Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea."