God when he makes the prophet does not unmake the man.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

We kept our secrets because we don't want to reveal what we were before

Nice passion is reading

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The part is greater than its role in the whole.

The malicious have a dark happiness.