Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

When a good thing goes bad its not the end of the world. Its just the end of a world, that you had with one girl.

The more you retrain yourself to choose happiness over fear, the more blissful you will be.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

I've been to North Africa many times.

Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.