I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.

Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwellClosed in Fancy’s rainbow shell

The rhythm of the dance lies in the music.

Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.

Let us pray that Allah will guide us safely through such a time as this.

I think that Brad Pitt is definitely a hottie. And his acting is so great that it makes him even more sexy.

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.