Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Education made us what we are.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

Why can't we breathe now, In this moment we have breath?

Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

I live in Portland now. It's beautiful from day one. The Food and the beer, and no sales tax. Get your iPad while you're here.

I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.