One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another?

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.

If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.

It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

And I know it's over, but it's the same way I felt when you broke up with me.

Sometimes in life, there are no second chances

Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren’t really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.