The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

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.

Through the realization of the potentials and possibilities within and outside of you, one connects imagination with reality. What could be becomes so.

California is like the hot blond high school chick who's been getting by on her looks, but now she's 45 and falling apart.

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

Trump University is just one of the many lines of attack that were opened up last night, giving a preview of what's to come in the general if [Donald] Trump is indeed the Republican nominee.

You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

Get the mind right, the body will follow

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.