In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Open your eyes wide and see yourself breaking new territories... Believe what you see

There is no jealous man, without a flirtatious woman.

Now is the time to make good use of time.Today is the day to begin a perfect day.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe.

It is the way you feel that is your point of attraction.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.