It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

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.

Love is still alive in my heart. Dreams are still alive at the dead of night. Hopes are still dancing in my mind.

And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.

Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.

I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.

The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans.