Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.

Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.

Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.

Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.

What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.

The biggest roadblock to changing the world is believing that your voice doesn't matter.

There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.

Everyone's a racist. It's the one thing that makes us all the same.

It's amazing how dumb people can impress you with how much stupider they can be when they really assert themselves.

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

Not everyone likes all our flavors, but each flavor is someone's favorite.

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?