The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.

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

Days may pass into months, months may pass into years, and years may pass into decades, but I will always keep waiting for you.

You can take course after course of so-called theology and never hear the message at the heart of Christianity—the message of Jesus, which is indiscriminate love.

Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

I think I did 97 pitch meetings, and even at the 97th meeting, there were questions I was getting that I hadn't had in the - you know, any of the 96 preceding ones.

The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.

I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny