Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.

No beautiful aspect of humankind is foreign to person with a lucid soul.

I’m not looking for anything, but who knows. Lightning is weird.

If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best.

Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

"Miss you," he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound.

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.