“We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.”

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.

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.

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

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.

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.

Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

My mother once said “If you don’t pay attention to age, then it won’t pay attention to you.” And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don’t buy it.

I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, ‘Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!’

You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.