In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

....there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have.

Yesterday for contemplation, today for action.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.

I hardened my heart against all the Bennets. - Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy.

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's bad.

We are the mountains we must cross.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

When you change showrunners, it's like getting divorced and getting remarried.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.