A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

A most amazing defense with Power to destroy any enemy… GRATITUDE!

Failure is not the end of life. It is the beginning of a greater success, if thy will persist.

A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

No matter what you got, the blues is there

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.