To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

Planting of godliness must be a continuous thing, however, one needs to start the planting of godliness from the home front.

Let it rain to You and drips on me, together we will get wet

... where there was hunger there would also be bread.

Muslims have never been and never can be so base as to expect any solutions to their problems through terror.

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Though I've turned 21, I don't drink. I'm an old hag now. I'm just an old fart.

Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.

All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.