The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

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

Morality is not respectability.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.

Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price.