To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

My mind s a center of divine operations

I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction.

In the long run, everything is a toaster.

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn’t a good idea.

Hesitation only enlarges, magnifies the fear. Take action promptly. Be decisive.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.

Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.