The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed.

Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.

You might be a redneck if you give your dad a gallon of Pepto-Bismol for his birthday.

I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace of ideas in this country that in any way reflects the broad, real range of ideas.

Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!

It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.

Speaking of, her family is due in any minute to claim her body. What am I supposed to tell them when we can’t give the body over? Again, I don’t think ‘oops’ will quite cover it. (Tate)

When you give 100 percent to another person, two literally become one.