The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

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 God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

With what has occurred in my life, the baseball field is where I feel most comfortable. That's what I feel I was born to do and it's what I do best.

One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

I never really thought of myself as a beefcake kind of guy.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.