Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

If you would know and not be known live in a city.

If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

You called me at four thirty-four....I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable, like, say, nine twelve.

People are attracted to leaders who are skillful in motivating them to become more, do more, and achieve more...

For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

Even with a round table, some people always seem able to sit at the head of it.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

Happiness comes from holiness. You can't truly be happy unless you're hungry for Jesus Christ.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.