Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Microsoft obviously takes way too long to fix flaws, .. All researchers should follow responsible disclosure guidelines, but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw, a researcher has every right to release the details.