The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

While bright-eyed science watches round.

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.

The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of last become common property.

The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

"Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper,-- "orthodoxy is my doxy,--heterodoxy is another man's doxy."

Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Ideas are funny little things, they won't work unless you do.

Speak me fair in death. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Hungry bellies have no cars.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.