History begins in novel and ends in essay.

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.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

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.

Knowledge is power, wisdom is power with a purpose.

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom

I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.

I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

Be somebody for your kids to look up to.