Roger Crawford

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

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.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

That’s what I can’t stand. I know I’ll bounce back, and that’s what I can’t stand.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

One night awaits all, and death’s path must be trodden once and for all.