“...but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivate...”

“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”

“For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other m...”

“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”

“So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrat...”

“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”

“As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that b...”

“Its important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your min...”

“Reason, Observation and Experience the Holy Trinity of Science have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This...”

“MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.”

“LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.”

“You can't buy the love you want, you can't sell your love. Love is given by those who deserves it.”

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”

“The truth is more important than the facts.”