No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Only the most passionate love could ever induce me to marry.

Dark hair on a white pillow, an ache inside, his face a reflection in her eye.

Just like in the eye of the storm there is always comfort within the chaos. Becoming aware of this however, is your responsibility.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness, And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour.He that knows better how to tame a shrew, Now let him speak. 'Tis charity to show.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

I would say, in humanity, there is some unbreakable element that makes us so special, and I would call that hope or a belief in something better. It's something that drives us.

Each of us can, by ploy or gambit, most naturally gain the advantage.