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.

Sleep like you can never be deadDream as if you have a soul inside your head

Never be angry with something that can't get angry with you.

Behind every no entry sign there's a door.

My country ... gave me schooling independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!

Wives, girlfriends, fiancees - clean out your closets. I'm cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.