“It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.”

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Books, the children of the brain.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

It’s sad that when I win people gotta scramble with lies for my success.

We’re all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.

I remember crying in front of the nation.‬ Shedding tears made me feel human, made me feel complete. Tears only make us stronger.

The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?

We can overcome the obstacles through human unity.

I don’t know why people like being oppressed.

Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.