The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

In everything, there is a share of everything

Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

I cannot allow a third party to decide on my country's future.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

Superman is not as innately cool as Batman.

Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.