The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

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.

The truth is I didn’t need therapy

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

I don't need to be married, but I feel married.

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.

If Chisora wants to kiss me, OK, if he likes me so much, but the best answer for him will be an answer with a fist in the ring.