Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg…
Don’t be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don’t bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don’t waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
A good conscience is a continual feast.
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you who you’ll turn out to be.
Exploring the mysteries of myself and the world. Sensual, powerful, wise… on my path…
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
