“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
“To be social is to be forgiving.”
“Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.”
“Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.”
“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
“He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.”
“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.”
“Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.”
“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.”
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
“Remember that time is money.”
“Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”
“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual.”
“Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”
“Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.”
“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”
“Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.”