Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

A good shepherd has a positive influence on his people through "inward work", i.e. working on them from the inside.

The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.

The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.