A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility. -Charles Colton.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.

Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.

Great grief does not of itself put an end itself.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Love: the only game that two can play and both can win.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.

The king reigns but does not govern.