All mankind love a lover.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.
Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
