"Possession, they say, is eleven points of..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.”

“When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.”

“Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.”

“We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.”

“Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.”

“We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe.”

“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”

“Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.”

“A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.”