What is food to one man is bitter poison to others

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.

Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding death.

Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.

There can be no centrein infinity.

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.

‎There is nothing sweeter than finding the right person to love and cherish and to share your hopes and dreams with.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

I have no known marketable skills.

It is the only happy life to live for the salvation of souls.

The house of magic has many rooms.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.