I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

A book is the only immortality.

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you.I remember how to fly.

The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments

One woman's definition of success may not be another's. Is success, as the world defines it, an accomplishment in a society this sick?

If it has a name or a description it has or will exist at some point in time

To love a person is to love their universe.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.