Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.

You might be a redneck if an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger changed your life.

Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.