Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.

Can mortal prayers ensure immortal happiness?

How we are born to invent our own miseries!

Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.

Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.

How easy it is to be unknown!

Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.

A relationship is a game of chess.

The bell tolls with a painful note afarWhen man drops in the dreadful jaws of deathBut human beasts watch death with mouth ajarWhile lifeless church bell feels the pangs of death

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

A special pathway to citizenship is off the table... when I talk to members of the group in the Senate, they're saying that we're both saying the same thing.

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.