The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

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.

People’s love for us may change, depending on what we do or don’t do to please them. But God’s does not—it’s everlasting.

Success has proven to us over and over again that one's dream would become impossible to achieve, if one continuously convinces oneself to believe so.

Now when the flowers are in full bloom, It is the ashes from the past that hidden loom.

Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Stay cool, hang loose, admit nothing.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

Last time I checked I was able to throw the ball a little bit.