Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.

You can be whatever you want to be. Don't let discouragement take you down.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.

Heroes don't get anything but dead.

The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time.

Man and wife, being two, are one in love.