Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

In ourselvesIn our own honest hearts and chainless handsWill be our safeguard

It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.

Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.

Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock.

I own motorized bar stools.

The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly.

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

If a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?

I bought myself a parrot, but it did not say "I'm hungry", and so it died.