Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't... you are right.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Life is like a coin, you can spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once.
Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.
