Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

No doesn't mean to Marcus what it means to those without money and a car.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

sometimes, when the sun shines, it scorches.

I don't know anything about baseball.