Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

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.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

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.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

The game is not over until it is.

What you have known of this life so far is only a dream, a slim dream at that. As one who has traveled greatly in the worlds, I can assure you there is much to see and much to become.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt this lost, even in Wales.

I hate nostalgia. Today is always better than yesterday.

Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.