Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Are you like, a crazy person?I’m quite sure they will say so.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

I funded this guy [Ted Cruz]. I gave him a check.You know why? I didn't want to, but he sent me his book with his autograph.

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed.

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.

The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos.