If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Let us be kind and pay our deepest gratitude to those angels who fill our life with joy, beauty, and magic.

Most people don't lay the foundations correctly because they are too impatient or too greedy or too stupid ...

We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.

The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!

Good days, they come around the oddest corners.

We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.

The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink.

Don't go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want.

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.