Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your own.

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.

The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.

He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.

They, and they only, advantage themselves by travel, who, well fraught with the experience of what their own country affords, carry ever with them large and thriving talents.

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates.

Any way that you can get the end result is valid, whatever it takes.

I can't compete with making promises you can't keep.

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out!

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.