"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."

"Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

"Our life is not so much threatened, As our perception."

"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."

"Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it."

"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."

"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about himself."

"One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind."

"The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord."