There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

Let the sun shine in.

Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample, Catullus scarcely has a decent poem, I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example, Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample; But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."

Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . . must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

hook, line and sinker.

Change or die.

Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.

"Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never stops- at all- .

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear.

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.

Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear.

Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.

If you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included.

At this day... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; ... but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.

Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.

The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.