Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

I will act as if I do make a difference.