Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

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.

Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.

There's a lot of things you can't control. But you can always be a pro.

As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

War creates peace like hate creates love.

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.

You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.