Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
A reputation is really hard to live down.
When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.
I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation. . . Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.