Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather.

Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it.

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.

Women like jewelry. They're like racoons: show them some shiny stuff and they'll follow you home.

Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, "Why should I let you into heaven?" how would you answer?

Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.