People

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it

A man can die but once.

Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass it

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Human blood is all one colour

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

All mankind love a lover

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them

The only security of all is in a free press

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men