To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

Being in love is not always being happy but being happy is always being in love

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.

Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.

Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door, but only as long as it's not visible from the street.

Cats talk to whomever they please.