A dominant religion is never ascetic.

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.

His is the same fear most everyone has, everyone for me for the fact that I cannot.

Dead. Supposedly Suicide. That's how they'll kill Michael too. Make it look like a suicide or an accident of some sort.

Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice.

Life can be dangerous; just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is.

GOD is watching us, from a Distance.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.