What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

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.

Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it.

Fate of the worms or insects on earth is 100% better than those who are born as Royals.

I have big nuts. huge nuts. Elephantitis of the balls - that's what I have.

I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.

Buddha is in our hearts. Buddha is in our mouths. Buddha is in our daily lives.

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says.

So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Vision with action makes a powerful reality.