Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

Horses are a symbol of America and can be marketed that way overseas.

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."