If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

If you do not sow good deeds, you fail to flourish your soul garden.

A pen name is a nickname.

Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul’s journeying.

absolute power is corrupting

You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.

There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.