Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.

I had faith, and if I had faith I couldn't worry.

The fundamental law of truth is that it penetrates through all darkness.

Whenever he looks at me with those big brown eyes, I feel like giving him a nut,” she said. She even started calling the squirrels running around in the park Mr. Whitmans.

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows!

What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay.

Cradles are the most powerful pinning combination known to man