Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I'm nervous about what it does to the future of Social Security.

You learn an enormous lot through failure.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

The nature of the game is pain.

Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.