"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."

"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."

"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."

"To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population."

"Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best."

"Wisdom principle 35 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 52."

"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."

"I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid."