To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

Thomas Carlyle

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Nigella Lawson

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

Caleb Cushing

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

I. F. Stone

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Blaise Pascal

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.

William Ellery Channing

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

Amelia Earhart

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

Louis C. K.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Orison Swett Marden

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

Peter Fonda