There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
Joy is the life of man's life.
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.
The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.
When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.