If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Trust in humanity, she is only in her infancy, she will grow to be great and trustworthy.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

For every bad moment I've had, there have been 25 positives.

Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.

In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to make it easy for the police to do their work.

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

Dirty energy is a finite resource; the more of it we use, the scarcer it becomes.