It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

Then where is home, Johannes?" He looks at the maps on his wall. "I don't know, " He says. "Where comfort is. And that is hard to find.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

I'm bad at rationalisation - very bad.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for the future of the country.