I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

A claim that event horizons exist is like someone's claim to be immortal: You would have to wait until the end of time to confirm the claim.

I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business.

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

As addictive and satisfying as my first tattoo, Wolf’s Remedy left me craving more.

Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.

I never turn down a drink. Among friends it’s always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy. You’ll find that in the Talmud too.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.