Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading.

The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

I believe in ghosts and spirits, and I believe that they can possess you.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

Choosing to have a child you can't take care of is like farting in an elevator. Sure you got it out, but not it's everyone else's problem.

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.