Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.

Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not.

The spirit of light gives birth to the soul of love.

What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.

I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men.

Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!

If you go around promising what you do not yet have, you will lose the will to achieve it.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.