A state is a perfect body of free men united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

By undertaking many things, I have accomplished nothing.

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

When life's got you down, keep your head up... you can't see the ground anyway

Those acidic insults being poured down on you are found in satan's gallons! Watch those who tackle you for you to fall down

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.

In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.