It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
That which is not just is not law.
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
“Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and the last”
I bear a charmed life.
rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.
Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.
“Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.”
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
Something good will come of all things yet.
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.