It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business anywhere else.

Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!

Never argue with a stupid person. First they'll drag you down to their level, then they will beat you with experience.

Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

A deal of skimble-skamble stuff. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.