The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

…He sounded as though he had just seen The Pokey Little Puppy meet the business end of The Little Engine That Could.

The question to always be in your inner dialogue, asking yourself...is it kind?

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. —STEVEN WRIGHT

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.

I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

It's you, so I feel that a person who will understand you, a person who will find you is waiting out there. So just keep on trying your best.

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!