Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

A book is the only immortality.

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don't, you're living someone else's life.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

Everyone is born with some special talent.

RoboCop was maybe the best summer of my entire life.

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.