We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

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.

I swear." His hand came up in the three-finger Boy Scout pledge.Annie couldn't help by laugh. "You may be many things, Jake. But an innocent Boy Scout isn't one of them.

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

'Did you live here?' Leif asked. I nodded. 'For two years'.'Where did you stay?' 'I had a room in Valek's suite.' Leif shot me an incredulous look. 'Boy, you worked fast.'

Love was life's secret purpose.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road.

I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line.