The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.

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.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

She may be an old flame, but she still smokin'.

Nolan was the only one who knew the real Lexi Shaw, and that was exactly how I intended to keep it.

Sometimes you have to give the hurt a noise and let it out. If you don’t, it fills you up with its emptiness.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!

Eric, what are you doing?" "Snuggling." "Get out of my bed!" -Sookie Stackhouse, Eric Northman

How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.

Now you have kids that say, 'I wanna be Torii Hunter one day.' Man, I love that.