There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
My favorite nightcap, after all this time, is still the cocktail of you.
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
All say, How hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don’t have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.
He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
We’re so infatuated with studying labels that we forget to read between the lines of one another.
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
