Knowledge is power.
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
It’s hard to have it all. And if you’re compromising through one phase of your journey, you’re not giving it all up, you’re compromising for that phase
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.
I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;we shall never surrender.
Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
When one wanted one’s interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people’s tricks.
Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free.
