So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Life is a game of choice”.

Life is what you want it to be, not what others want to be

The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.

Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks.

Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.

To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.

You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.