Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.

Hope is a happy spirit.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.

Truth is buried, deep inside of men, sweep away each day.

I used to be the kind of person who needed to have a lot of people around. That's where I found my serenity.

The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.

I smile at her. "You're an angel." "Nah," she says. "I'm just a girl crazy in love.

She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

Why do you want to open the outside door when there is an inside door?