If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.

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.

Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.

We are God’s holy people.

The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

Politics is not about justice, but about solutions.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.