“Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.”

It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.

Come and take them.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah..

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.