The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

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

Either you make things happen or you quit.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.

I want to be as self-reliant as possible and do it all from within.

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

Love me or hate me, Scary Spice is back.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.