Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

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.

For a peaceful world, the golden rules to live by are mutual understanding, respect, tolerance, forgiveness, and love.

The privilege of the grave: Its occupant has one privilege which is not exercised by any living person: free speech.

For those who are intrigued by the multiplicity of reality and the unique possibilities of their own vision, the creative is the path they must pursue.

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.

the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

My biggest fear in life is fear.

Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.