The more you complain the longer God lets you live

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.