When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

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.

Memory is all I have now

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

You will feel powerful only when you learn to use the power of love.

Unkind acts are like giving a piece of one’s self away for cheap.

Dogs seem more photogenic than cats. In photos most cats look like sociopaths.

Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.

Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

I took some time away from the music industry. I've been doing this since I was 16 and needed some time to get to know myself as a grown-up.