There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

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.

There are very few personal problems that can't be solved with a suitable application of high explosives.

Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery.

Don’t ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.

Winners dont do different things They do things differently

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.