Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

The harder the struggle, the bigger the gain. The important thing is to stick with it, repetitively and consistently.

God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

If you want to create, you'll create.

The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

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

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

To be more precise it was the color of heartache.