How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.

It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.

For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.