That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.

Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision.

Character is that which can do without success.

It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

I want my work to help people rediscover the child that's hiding in them.

Only an excellent fabric can originate an excellent fashion

I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am.

Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.