The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.