All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
I don't do drugs, I am drugs
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.