Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

In everything, there is a share of everything

Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.

It's tremendous: this world, this life. Take it while you have it.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.

...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.

I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.

People get desperate when they're backed into a corner.

I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.