It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

You know,” Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window.

The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.

We ain't never gonna lose this land.

There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.