If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.

You never know what you can do till you try.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Who can do anything after Beethoven?

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

That face. That body. And you know he’s packing. Look at the angle on that dangle.

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

Turning toward what you deeply love saves you