There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

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.

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

You can change someone by your actions, not by your words

We only have what we give.

We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

To learn is to change.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

Our permanent address is tommorrow.

Where our joy is, there should our work be.