In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

The only good knowledge is the knowledge of God.

Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process.

Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

Many cricketers who had more ability than I had, Why they didn't make more runs than I did, I don't know

Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara.

How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.