The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights.They blame about the darkness in broad daylight.

The answer is not relevant to the knowledge of an inquiring mind.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Right underneath your thoughts and negative emotions exists an ocean of love. You have but to quiet the mind to experience it.

This is my question for conservatives: don't you want to live, too?

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too.

Only you can decide what is most important in your life.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.