Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

By undertaking many things, I have accomplished nothing.

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

A state is a perfect body of free men united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

Vulnerability does not take away your strength

, , , we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.

I may have my fault's but being wrong isn't one of them

Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

I call myself a constitutional conservative.