A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

Do first what you don’t want to do most.

The awkward moment when Santa accidentally leaves the price tag on your present.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

Taigen Dan Leighton has lovingly illumined still another dimension of the human condition.

Go for the girl who can eat a proper meal. If she's passionate about food, you'll most likely be fortunate in other venues.

If I had more time, I would have written less.

That you may be beloved, be amiable.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge.