But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?

You never know what you can do till you try.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

I didn't survivethe storm outsideto allow anyone (including myself)to erode my soul

Reading sparks writing.

Tears are pouring down my cheeks like tiny rivers, soaking my shirt with dark patches of my salty happiness.

I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.

You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.