We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

People who know how to act are never preachers.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.