I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

Great souls know the strength of their spirit.

A shame. As promising as a sky full'a rainbows but as useful as a bag'a dirt.

a rainy walk through leaves will cure almost anything

The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.

From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

President Trump's made it clear that his administration is going to put the safety and security of the American people first.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.