The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

I believe time wounds all heels.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases… but they don’t know the actual consequence of that.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

War settles nothing.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.