High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

I am deeply in love with you but you are so ethereal. I may not know how to touch your heart.

I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.

Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

Comfort is bought at too high a price.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

However you make your living is where your talent lies.

To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.

And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.