Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.