Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

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.

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Happy COUPLES are those who have passed both chemistry and physics!

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

I've always been in a rebel.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words.

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.