I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.

It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant(Isabella)

That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.

We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

I think we need to think of capitalism as a very bad way of organizing communism. Much of what we do is already communism, so just expand it.

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

If you build it, he will come.