Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

If politicians would think more they would act less.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.

Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

He downed the last of his coffee, carried his mug over to the pot, poured himself a refill, and returned to the

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

We all love to win, but how many people love to train?

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.