We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Francis Bacon

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Terry Pratchett

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

Albert Einstein

Example is better than following it.

Ambrose Bierce

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Will Rogers

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

Clint Eastwood

I'll always be number 1 to myself.

Moses Malone

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

Colin Wilson

Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half: with that thy gentle hand Seisd mine, I yielded, and from that time see How beauty is excelld by manly grace.

John Milton

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

John Green