Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

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

When you’re late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love’s-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don’t recover from.

The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer.

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

When you walking along naturally, you're walking in the harmony of the Unborn.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.

Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant.

Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

The reality is customers lie - not because they want to want to deceive you, but because they don't do a good job of predicting what they will do in the future.