Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

'Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.

I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into.

Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

I'm good at picking friends.

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.

If all you did to improve your commercial presence was to train your sales people on the importance of influencers ... how much more effective could they be?