We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

Diesel sucked air. "You keep fondling me like that, and I might have to marry you.""I'm not fondling you. I'm looking for the keys!""Could you look a little more gently? You're scaring my boys.

I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.

To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.

God made me a singer, and I just sang.

The more business gets involved, the less fun it is.

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.

Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.