A book is the only immortality

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

A book is the only immortality.

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

Sold my soul to the devil, made a profit.

I consider myself to be a romantic person, and I love the idea of having a soul mate.

I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.

The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.