I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.