Wise judges are we of each other!

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

In the light, we find the light of life.

I never said "I want to be alone." I only said "I want to be left alone." There is all the difference.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

I smoked some weed, and that's how I finished 'Izzo.'

I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.