Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.