The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

One truly understands only what one can create.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Understanding arises through making

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief

I don't know. I don't understand how boys think. If I knew that I'd be a millionare.

Spider-Man has always been a huge part of my life. I love the movies. I love the comics. And I always just wanted to be Spider-Man.

You know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?

We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

Roger became a part of me, and when he went off the deep end and became a mad snake, I felt sorry for him.

Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish.