Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

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.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside-in the inner woman and her heart-and then works outward.

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

No one provokes me with impunity.

By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.

The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature.

Success is a game, you must want to win.