Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

There is no accounting for tastes.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

The hunger for change is the desire to make a change.

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.

I have the feeling I’ve been— unpleasant.

What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.

I dont partake in assembly-line convenience. I dont say that killing things is bad while I hire people to kill things for me.