Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.