You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation

Imagine repeating the power words ‘love’ or ‘happiness’ for five minutes twice a day for the rest of your life, amazing things could happen.

In a battle between  two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

Overflowing thanksgiving

Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such restoration.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him.

I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.

What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.