Every wall is a door.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world’s eye.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
Already know you that which you need.
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself, and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Writers are the engineers of human souls.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Necessity does everything well.
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
