He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

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.

The only thing you ever have is now.

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

There is much to be learned from the little kids and from the little animals! Little things teach us big things! Small candles too challenge the huge darknesses!

Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.

Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.

Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches.

Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.