Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

One-time revenue spikes that aren't repeatable won't help you achieve consistent year-after-year growth.

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

When I was going through my cancer treatment, I learned that you can never ask a stupid question. I asked every single question that came to my mind, and I believe that helped to calm my own anxiety.

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.