By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty if he wished to drop the Earth and creep away, but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people’s wrath.