The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

We were each other's rock. But did it make us each other's destiny?

Discipline is needed in our family lives.

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.

I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

I think kids are smarter than you think.