I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Misery and poverty of a nation is associated with the conscious of its people not leaders.

I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

Sometimes things just happen in the moment.

She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child.

There's a lot of great stuff on TV.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants.

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.