Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Always live your life with your biography in mind, " Dad was fond of saying."Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Just know what you're talking about and if you don't, look it up. Education.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

I believe there are unidentified flying objects, I'm just not sure who's driving.

I think the boy should pay. 'Cuz that's just the way it works on a first-date. But if he doesn't offer, then I will pay... and then just not go out with him again.

Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.