Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Freedom is the decision to live and die, doing what you love.

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

One of life’s ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.

Over the long run, many of Perry's stances boil down to following the money.

It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

Congress doesn't hate Congress.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.