"No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another."

"It is a quiet truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

"It is a radiant truth that a dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope."

"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools."

"Experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one."

"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."