Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

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.

No you sick, stupid creep, I love you. I shouldn't. I shouldn't. You're sick inside, Caine, sick! But I love you. - Diana

You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.

We will have to work hard to rest.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

What Donald Trump knows is that people across this country and indeed world are afraid of terrorism, and they have a reason to.

Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.

My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.