We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

We cannot ignore our gift of the future.

The real beauty of life is in orderliness.

This is supposed to be a lighthearted session of symbolic document destruction, not a political debate.

Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.

I love fashion. Over the past year I've got heavily into it.

When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!