Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
The future is purchased by the present.
You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
I didn’t find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.
If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are a different game you should play.
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
The dice of God are always loaded.
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
I teach that all men are mad.
Fueling your body is a process… The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
