"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"If universal charity prevailed, Earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."

"Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms."

"On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime."

"I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."

"If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?"

"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."

"Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values."

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."