I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.

By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past.

Satan is always looking for legal right and authority to torment and attack people. Whatever he has the right to do, the devil will do.

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

I didn't play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...