It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

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.

Work without love is slavery.

Optimists anticipate problems, welcome them, and challenge them. Thus, eventually they defeat their problems.

In fact she’s a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.

Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.

If ignorance is bliss why aren't there more happy teenagers?

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.