Revolutions go not backward.
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Every wall is a door.
Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.
Shut your mouth, close your lips, and say something!
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
Art is the path of the creator to his work.
The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust
The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
