The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

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

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

The backward look behind the assuranceOf recorded history, the backward half-lookOver the shoulder, towards the primitive terror.

There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that’s watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.

I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn’t do that, I’d at least be there for her. (Eric)

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

We're living in a technological world. You cannot tell me we can't do a better job getting that information.

Yeah, I like that idea. Maybe he'll shoot at us again. I was hoping someone would shoot at me today. That was the first thing I said when I got up: Boy, I hope I get shot at today.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.

Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.