Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.
Mysteries are due to secrecy.
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
