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

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.

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 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.

For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.

Questions asked out of agenda threaten Questions asked out of authentic, loving inquiry unlock and liberateChoose.

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

I do like artfully breaking rules.

I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark.

The balance of trade is an article of faith.

My mom taught me not to talk about money.

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

People seldom live up to their baby pictures.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.