It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

To live in peace, love peace.

Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry.

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.

I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

In a lot of ways, the task at hand for any poem is to approach something that defies exactness or definition with a kind of exactness or precision.

What's interesting about subscribing to a life of giving is that you become addicted.

In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great.