Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

I hate the moment in which come thoughts, it's the moment when I watch horror, when I enjoy something. A though comes, another and another... and I just don't know what to choose.

Kisses are a shared solitude.

It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

I close with two words, ‘Kill ISIS!’ God bless you all!

Be yourself. Unless you have the option to be Batman, then always be Batman.

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.