A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

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.

Time is the first currency for success and one we all hold in common.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

We are never alone God will always be with us.

She’d die before she let that demon touch her again. But maybe that was his plan all along.

Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.

No one cares until someone cares

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

The person who sweeps the floor should choose the broom.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.