Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; a villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

I think my sudden love for this girl is a truer expression of myself than anything.

Give the american people a good cause, and there’s nothing they can’t lick.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

In peace one is despoiled by the mercenaries, in war by one's enemies.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.