A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

It was right that she was now staying at the ranch. She belonged there.

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

All came from, and will goe to others.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

I'm not going to blame a referee for something I feel like I should be able to control. I should get up quicker. If you want to win fights, you just have to do it, regardless of what's going on.

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.