What some invent the rest enlarge.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

We are born among relatives. Family is defined by loyalty.

Courage, self-reliance and decisiveness are the main traits that define a man.

No one asked your opinion O'Brien, " the red-haired one snapped again."No one ever asks yours either, that doesn't seem to stop you from giving it, " he countered.

Transformation is an ongoing process that tends to appear ordinary, when, in fact, something extraordinary is taking place.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy.

Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.