Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

Peace begins with nonjudgmental love.

I think people are scared, and dumb, and selfish on their own, but put enough of them together and they'll be half-decent

Is the love you have for me, and the feelings I have for you forever parallel, with no chance of intersecting?

I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.