And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Opposition is the very spur of love.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

Glory is the child of peril.

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought!

Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.

Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are.

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.