Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

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.

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How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.

I am free to make anything I want as long as I think it will sell.

There's not that many surprises that you get in life.

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.