Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

When you know every well what to do and how to do it, your attitude determines how well you will have it done!

If you criticize others’ ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are.

Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.

There's been a progression in my sound.

If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

I think there's an innocence to me.

Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.