Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Ma Baxter rocked complacently. They were all pleased whenever she made a joke. Her good nature made the same difference in the house as the hearth-fire had made in the chill of the evening.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

The world is a wheel always turning.

I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict.

What I enjoy is a collaboration. Working with other like-minded people. People who have brilliant minds and big hearts.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.