My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Hopefully we'll be doing this forever, but we'll only have one first time.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.

I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'

I guessed his name was Face of Horror. I wondered how long it had taken his mom to think of that. Bob? No. Sam? No. How about Face of Horror?

How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.