I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

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.

Don’t do things to point out your weaknesses, do things to point out your strength.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.

Money is a living thing.

When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.

Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.

The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.