No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

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.

Be disciplined and disciple to thrive in every situation and keep cleaved to your plans.

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.

… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to.

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned. [Lat., Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima.]

...the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.

Love is a sweet thing caught a momentand held in a golden eye.