Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

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

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

A true friend is someone who knows what you want before you ask for it.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Who are my influences? Everybody.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

I am wrapped in dismal thinking.