It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.

Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.

Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.

The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.

I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

My books are like my children. I love them all.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a 'Plan B' on another world.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.