A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.

Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.

A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.

Lyrics are for teenage girls, brah.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.

Modeling isn't all that tough.

In case you're wondering why Guy Fieri is here, he won a contest.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.