Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.

Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

Of two Evils we take the less.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking.

[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

...black music is a group music. That's why I don't like doing a solo saxophone thing: My feeling stems from rhythm, I really have to feel that rhythmic thing happening.

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.

You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative.

No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.