“Too many christians have been chargeable with… confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.”

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it may be reduced, are nowhere laid down, or asserted, in the Scriptures, but others quite contrary to them.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

Offense is not equal opportunity

Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.

You’re the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.

In fact, for all kinds of offenses – and, for no offenses – from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,

I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.