Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Some may call me a vigilante. I think i've got problems to fix.

If I’m a monster, mademoiselle, it’s because man’s cruelty has made me so.

If you find a perfect church don't join it: You'd spoil it.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.

By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.