The Medici created and destroyed me.
There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi). " Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.
Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.
Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
Now, I happen to be an optimist.