To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

Today I found an old friend. –Ed Burns via Purple Violets

The bigger thing with bitcoin is not bitcoin itself, but what does that decentralized technology really do?

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

It was scary how much she sounded like me sometimes. Maybe that's why she totally got on my nerves

Beauty is very much in the mind of the beholder.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.