In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

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.

Impatience is the thief of success.

Even if I am being conservative, I don't see how Obama can lose.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.

Follow your dreams and take your risks.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.

I didn't want to overstate anything, but at the same time, the scene expands on some of the themes in the film [ "Aquarius"].

The star-crossed lovers