Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

I'm not a ice cream, i'm a human being

What about your crepe?" "Stuff It." "She's crazy about you," Mavis commented. "It's almost embarrassing, the way she fawns.

There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'