New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.

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

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement.

There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good.

The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.