The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.

Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.