To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

IN the book of my heart, pages keep falling out, many of them marked "Mom and Dad.

Every book is a world.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book -- reportedly the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history.

I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.

Quality thoughts will turn their back on you if you don't treat them with respect.

When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.

Because you're not thinking about existence and being, you're not really thinking at all.

... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.