It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft, Why fall ye thus before a little wind?

I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

Jayne Mansfield is making a career of being a girl.

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

You know, funny can be universal.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.