For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

Endure despite the pain. The key is grace of strength.

What separates the wise from the unwise is

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

You can only win the 'war' with ideas, not with spending cuts

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

In joy and sorrow all are equal, Thus be guardian of all, as of yourself.

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.