Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

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 all exist as part of a wonderful stream of life.

His heart overflowed with good intentions but his fists felt best covered in blood.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

I am going to do everything I can to clear my name.

In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

A smile cures the wounding of a frown.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.