The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.
Kill the king but spare the man.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies; yet our present numbers are sufficient to repel the force of all the world.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
It is not because the right principles have been violated, that they are to be abandoned.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on.
Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.