The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.

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.

If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.

Choose the body in which to dwell.

Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty.

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

I'm quite geeky and I'm very much into video games and technology and stuff like that.

The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.

When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

Betrayal, in one form or another, is at the very heart of the world of intelligence.