Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter,--ask the rhetorician Sabinaeus to bathe himself in it. He would freeze the warm baths of Nero.

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

You only have one chance to make a first impression.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.