Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

I prefer your smiles and laughter, wife, but there are far worse things than your tears wetting my skin.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

what could i do to make the one i loved love me back ?

A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances.

People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.