Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time

Living in peace has transformative power!

Damien glared at the buxom beauty before him and almost gave in to the urge to strangle her himself.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?