Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

You've got to realize that the world's a test, You can only do your best and let Him do the rest. You've got your life, and got your health, So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.

I love my country. But how many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

We all have auras. But it's much easier to see the aura of someone who is in a state of samadhi or other profound state of awareness.

I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.