If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

No strength within, no respect without.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

When a man meets his mates society begins.