“There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.”

Art is the right hand of Nature.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

O’er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

The universe is a thought of God.

O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless.

Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody’s beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

Hello new world, how’s it going? I’m here to wreck everything.

We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.

It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.