While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Be careful about financial offers that often come by email. Before you respond to such an offer, ask yourself: do I really need a new problem?

There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament which way one deals primarily with Biblical material.

There are so many books and movies I like I never mention specific ones.

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

You'll find people less threatening if you hear what they're needing rather than what they're thinking about you.

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

To have everything you want, help as many people as you can possibly find get everything they want.