Truth is disputable, not human taste.

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

Turn off the light to enter into the darkness and enlighten the world with the lights of your being.

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

I did not grow up with silver spoon in my mouth.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.