“The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.”

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Books, the children of the brain.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

You will never learn to fly by ripping off someone’s wings.

I hate that time flies away too soon. I hate that dreams die faster when I don’t have you.

Maybe you too have those wings you just don’t know how to fly yet.

Grow slowly and silently fly away quietly.

Give me just a little ray of hope and I promise to fly on my own.

Don’t let wings to be a necessity to fly, hope in you would carry you to the sky.

The voices in your head are lying, i tell you this world never stopped you from flying.

It’s no wonder we’ve always sought the sky. After all, my child, our souls were meant to fly.