We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

big plans require big action

...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.

She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.

Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah.

But He is risen, a later star of dawn.