A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

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.

It is better to be small in flesh but large in spirit.

You’ll finally realize the importance of the spark of that diamond once you lost it.

Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free

My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.

I use to think all road racers were nuts. You know racing around a track at that speed.

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!