"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common."

"We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us."

"The discipline of desire is the background of character."

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."

"[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."

"'We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes."

"She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth ... or anywhere else."

"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."