The thoughts that come often unsought and as it were drop into the mind are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Now I know that, from this point on, we'll be the ones doing the chasing. And Iike it.

Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty.

I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

Your body’s reaction to fear is the same whether you are faced with a physical threat or an emotional one.

They're not predicting global warming based on what's happened in the past; they're basing it on what their computer predictions say, and nothing more.

Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied?