Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.

I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

Promise to my momma I'ma make it to the Top.. So I'ma keep climbing til my heartbeat drop

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.

Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people.

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

The devil is a gentleman.