I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I can't say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

There exist a lot of questions that the fools can ask, and the intelligent cannot answer.

A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.

I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.