Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Resist much. Obey little.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.