People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.

of their passions in the same object at that particular time.

Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning

The night darkens, the stars unfriendly, the cold a knife upon her neck - but Nella waits, until she can no longer difference between Johannes and the darkness that carries him away.

This is what I learned at the hospital. You have to do everything you can, you have to work your hardest, and if you do, if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining.

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.

I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.

You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his starting capital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly.