Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

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

Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that cause things to happen.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

Every girl needs a bestfriend to help her laugh when she thinks she'll never smile again

Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.