Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Secret is the mother of all lies.

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

It's an honor playing for Bobby Cox.

There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.

Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.

Yalena: Could you always open your door? Kiki: Yes. Fence, too. Yalena Why don't you? Kiki: Hay sweet. Fresh water. Peppermints.

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.