Literature is my utopia.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Come, our stomachs Will make what's homely savory.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

But the trail of the serpent is over them all.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!

If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men.

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree; Where Alph, the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 It should be noted, at least by those who accept Christ's claim to be God, that he by no means fits into the picture of the "mystic saint". Those who are fascinated by the supposed superiority of the mystic soul might profitably compile a list of its characteristics and place them side by side with those of Christ. The results would probably expose a surprising conclusion. There is, in fact, no provision for a "privileged class" in genuine Christianity.