These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

You can go as far as God takes you.

I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

I can watch a sunset on my own.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

Be the kind of friend who makes it easier for others to obey the commandments when they are with you.