Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

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.

Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.

Read good books to improve your life.

We'll make the trip a race, and I'll get there first.

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

France... What can you say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully-conceived and brilliantly-executed war in Iraq?

If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane.

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.