Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.

Use the arrows failure throws at you to hunt for success.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.

All my life I have dreamed of you.

We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.

I think Bush came back because Colin Powell was there. Hey, I'm the brigadier general, baby.

Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.