What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Education made us what we are.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

The only problem is time.

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WILL SMELL AS SWEET. BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO CALL A ROSE WILL POSSESS THE ROSE'S FRAGRANCE.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.

I pursue this dream and carry on. I don't dwell too much on the outside, I just focus on the inside.

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and all this goes into the writing.

Great design should tell a story.

Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.