In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

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.

It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

I think we're going to do some absolutely spectacular things for the American people.

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.

True worship doesn't keep looking at its watch.

I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.