History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

Redheads. We’re a Limited Edition of Fascination. A Unique & Rare Blend of Awesomeness.

She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis.

Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

So, if I had a mentor, it was Johnny Moss.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

Under Trump, the US will give its blessing to Israeli imperialism and racism.

Live in the past, but don't remember too much.