It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.