Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

A lie never lives to be old.

Freedom is from within.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.