“Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.”

“If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you”

“My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.”

“Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.”

“... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.”

“Tis not in mortals to command success; but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.”

“When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.”

“One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.”

“Nothing is so much admired, and so little understood, as wit.”

“Skaitymas protui - tolygu fiziniai pratimai kūnui.”

“A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.”

“Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.”

“There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride”

When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together.”

“I am...I am constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.”

“But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon.”

“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.”

“We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.”

“And, pleased th’ Almighty’s orders to perform,

“Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.”

“Oh! think what anxious moments pass betweenThe birth of plots, and their last fatal periods.”

“There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.”

Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.”

“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.”