"There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful."

"I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."

"A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other."

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are."

"The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants."

"Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers."

"I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up."

"What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough."

"If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by."