There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

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.

Do you know what it’s like, to hide in the shadows until your soul starts to blend into the darkness?

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

If I could make anything disappear, it would be hate.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them.