Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

When you change your story that you tell about yourself, you change your life. You can start telling a better story right now.

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes — a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

It's not how many followers you have, it's how many care. It's not width, it's depth. It's not how many impressions you get, it's how much attention you get.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.