Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Education made us what we are.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

We are all equal. The unlike of choices is what distinguishes us from each other.

Let them express their anger and hatred

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.

In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.

Without music I should wish to die.

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.

To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.