Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.

If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children.

We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"?

There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!

A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.