Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.

By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

When I was a kid Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.

Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.