He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.

We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Thanks are justly due for boons unbought

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.