Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

Let us ... quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in the past, provided only that we have the will and the way to do it.

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

Philosophy always buries its undertakers.

Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes us want to perceive it again

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Over the long run, the crowd is always wrong.

The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.