Taisen Deshimar

Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world – and never will.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.