Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

There is already enough chattering nonsense on the ground. Do we really need aviaries in pressurised tin cans at 30, 000 feet as well ?

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

The moon is bleached as white as wool, And just dropping under; Every star is gone but three, And they hang far asunder,-- There's a sea-ghost all in gray, A tall shape of wonder!

Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.

The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.