What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.

Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking.

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.

Words backed by faith and a true robust action have more power than words!

the path of politics should be cleared with the sword of the constitution

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.

Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.

Euro was created by Germany, for Germany.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.