Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

I’ve never been motivated by money – it doesn’t drive Me.

I closed the door. Other people got husbands and children

Now that we are born, let us live in a trance.

When you focus on the journey, you will be blessed with guardian angels to direct your path.

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

I used everything you gave me.

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

Politics is the science of urgencies.