The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.

I notice young girls picking flowers off her gravestone

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

As often as we do good, we sacrifice.

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.

The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.