The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Good leaders are always in the “act” of leading. They listen as much to others as they listen to themselves.

Science was born, when religion failed to find the God!

Life without Gratitude, is like trying to drown your sorrows by teaching them to swim.

It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.

A friend is an open sky with whom you can open wings of your mind to fly.

The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

Alabaster, you told me earlier that heroes don't die. You may be right, but I can tell you one thing." Claymore looked the boy in the eyes. "I'm not a hero.