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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pess...  
At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doin...  
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for ea...  
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary...  
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to s...   Science
Everything is self-evident.  
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.  
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things t...   Dreams
I think; therefore I am.  
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at lea...  
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.  
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well...  
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he...  
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest m...  
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been s...  
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow...  
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that t...