Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

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.

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

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.

The knowledge of the purpose of the success that you receive by grace in every area will keep us from pride and the love of money

Beautiful food and health are priceless.

All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

Jesus to me is somebody I can think about for security and confidence. Somebody I can revere in terms of bravery and in terms of courage.

Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.

Less than ten cents on the dollar in the Clinton Foundation has gone to charitable causes.

Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.

You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar