The business of everybody is the business of nobody.

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.

Increased physical activity enhances positive energy

President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.

Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.

No-one is ever betrayed by true love.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom.

God often gives nuts to toothless people.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.