The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

It was one of those moments that no scientist can ever reduce to numbers, try as she might.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.

Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment

The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.