Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

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.

I want more than last night. I want you.

...she took away my yesterdays. But that's OK. Because now I am a person made of tomorrows.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

I think I like ‘mundane’ better than ‘bloodsucker,’” Simon muttered. “With Jace, you don’t really get to choose your insulting nickname.” -Simon and Clary, pg.234-

Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

Any Republican, especially any conservative, expects the media to be hostile. That's just the reality of being a Republican. You've got to be prepared to deal with that.

Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have.