Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

So what's the deal with you and my sister?" He laughs shortly and rubs the back of his neck like something is there, tickling, tap

The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

I didn't know what Guess jeans were. I just shopped at Wal-Mart and Kmart and stuff like that.

...I dabble in causes and effects.

If you'd put it in a Powerpoint deck don't put it in your ad

Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

I wanted to become a better Snoop Dogg, full of water, proteins and stuff to keep me alive . . . lollipops and Big Macs.

But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species.