He is great who confers the most benefits.
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
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.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
There are charms made only for distance admiration.
Principles aren’t of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
It is possible to be free and loving no matter what your circumstances.
It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
Men’s men: gentle or simple, they’re much of a muchness.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
When you place yourself in a position to help another, you will discover your greater capabilities.
