"The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank."

"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things."

"Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision."

"Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent."

"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."

"Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt."

"Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it."

"MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustomed, as the ears of an ass, to a rabbit, or the glory of a glowworm, to a maggot."

"See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."

"Many things have fallen only to rise higher."

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

"A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors."