He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Man is by nature a political animal.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the world, And see how his stock went on.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.

It was not dogma that moved the world, but life. Frequently, when rival parties and rival nations fought with one another as to which of two opposed dogmas was the truth, they had been arrayed against one another by more deep-seated and vital causes, and merely inscribed at the last the dogmas on their standards or chose them as watchwords or symbols. We are tired of those elaborate discussions of the fine, wire-drawn, subtle distinctions between sects, and those elaborate discussions of the principles involved in heresies, and we desire to see the real differences in life and conduct receive more attention.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.