The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

You can’t move on, if you haven’t forgiven yourself, yet.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

You want me at your mercy, Princess. Question is, why?”“No, ” she whispered. “Question is, do I?

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

I don't know if we're cutting out, but a friend made a really fascinating suggestion to me; that maybe I could go higher.

If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been.

[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.