Credulity is always ridiculous.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

I hate forcing myself to go to bed to avoid committing suicide.

Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

I think that growing up is something that you should do gradually.