Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

If Jesus was here do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

And what Socrates is the food of the soul? Surely I said knowledge is the food of the soul.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding that it can hold men's hearts by hopes when it cannot by satisfaction

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Take me I am the drug, take me I am hallucinogenic.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind and there is no happiness equal to contentment, there is no disease like covetousness and no virtue like mercy.

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