Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

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.

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.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

i"ll always catch you when you fall." -Daniel, , torment

Look at you. Riding the gravy train with biscuit wheels.

If you take care of everything inside of you, God will take care of everything outside of you.

Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

At 18 I was attracted to bad boys.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

Unless the company becomes obsessed with constant change for the better, gradual change for the worse usually goes unnoticed.