Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.

The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity.

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Grief is a form of validation

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make that define who we really are.

Handwriting enables civilization.

Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They’re bedfellows.”-General John JamesCommandant, USMCDecember 11th, 2032

Your hearing status does not make you a better person. Your humanity does.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

I'm most often surrounded by people, so what I usually crave is time alone.

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.