Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.

Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

So many people com einto our lives and then leave the way they came. But there are those precious few who touch our hearts so deeply we will never be the same.

When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.

Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

How much good can you do today? How much love can you give? How much care and kind attention?