“Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.”

“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”

“There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”

“No one is exempt from talking nonsense the misfortune is to do it solemnly.”

“To make a crooked stick straight we bend it the contrary way.”

“When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?”

“Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.”

“So the next day I asked Dan how is it that Bubba can get killed, and what kind of half assed nature law would allow that. He thought about it for a while, and said, 'Well, I'll tell you, Forrest, a...”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”