“Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.”

Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

Silence is the only Voice of our God.

Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

We cannot live for ourselves alone.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.

There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.

My brain cannot process failure. It will not process failure

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.