The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Even though she was powerful enough to kill, she could also grow flowers.

I mean. You put puppies in a store front, I will stop and giddily stare. Every. Single. Time.

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

We will make America strong again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again, greater than ever before.

The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.

Mercy trumps justice.

I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.