She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

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.

The most important thing is not to achieve success, but to keep it so that it would be stable

Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

Don't push me I've got a corner at my back I've nowhere to go except over you.

The humility of wonder opens everything.

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.

If everyone is exceptional, nobody is exceptional.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.