Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

it’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

People who eat white bread have no dreams.

Joy is the vital air of the soul.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

I go and film 50 people in Israel, 50 people in Russia, and 50 people in Romania, in Paris, because I really like to get some particles of something real.

LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW.