Every clarification breeds new questions.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

I love opposition that has convictions.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

All mankind loves a lover.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.

The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer-I neer my Deer; Then stooping thence Adieu adieu, deer Deer, adieu.

The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.

The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are open paradise.

Stoop, boys. This gate Instructs you how t' adore the heavens and bows you To a morning's holy office.

It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."

Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave.

Knowing as "the man in the street" always does, the greatest secrets of kings, and being the confidant of their most hidden thoughts.

Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did.".

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.