The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

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.

One more thing...

My life wasn’t horrible, but I didn’t see any passionate reason to love it.

Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.