He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

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.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

If anyone doesn't agree with you, the truth is on your side.

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

Politics: a Trojan horse race.

It's always great to play parts that are larger than life.