Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
I think in places like Pennsylvania, there`s folks who want our next president to talk like a hawk, but fly like a dove.
Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
Fighting is about knowledge, knowledge is a very important part of it.