An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

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.

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it—because we need it.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

One's weakness should not ever be revealed.

The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.

I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington Bridge.

The opera ghost really existed

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

How was I ever going to fight the blurring lines in our relationship when I enjoyed being with him so much?

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.