111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.

Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources that we have available to us.