Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Money is a by-product of time.

Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

The Democrats are having all kinds of problems uniting people here, and Barack Obama is the lead unifier, and it ain't going to happen.

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.