Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .