Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

If you would know and not be known live in a city.

If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

If you're stuck in a puddle, it means there's higher ground all around you, you just have to step onto it.

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair - look at what's really there.