Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood.

If any QB can complete passes to himself, it's Johnny Manziel.

You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.

All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

You could do with losing a little bit of weight.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.