No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.

Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.

Right now at the announce table we've got two kings and a queen, I'll let you figure out who's who.

Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless.

Say to your soul, 'Let no unclean thing enter here.'

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?