Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

if love is not the answer, make sure to change the question.

You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history.

Nights would have been expressionlesshad it not been for the moon.The moon, I say, is a mood.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

How is it that we have sodomy protected under that due process but prostitution unprotected? It's schizophrenic.