Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Education made us what we are.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

Whilst some people inspire, others conspire!

Our best thoughts come from others.

I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

The early '90s were an especially marvelous period for fashion, because it was the peak of glamour and there were no limits as to what you could do.

First you get a habit, then it gets you.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.