Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.

By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

I like to play football, read some books, study.

I'm swamped with input. I want input, but I am so far behind on what I got here that I can't keep up with what people are sending me.

You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

I'm pretty, but not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.