I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

When God breathed life into us, He put His will in us

Comedy, such a lovely lady, she'll pick you up, you your feeling blue.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

"Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.

When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.