The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

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.

Back seat only works if you have a great driver!!! Either hire the right one or take charge and drive!!!!!

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.David

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

It's important to keep up the idea of the brand, even beyond sales.

We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.