The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.