It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

A young mark twain on the make: "I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

I can say opportunity is the time, if you have it, you can get anything

We need a common enemy to unite us.

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

As everybody knows, chicks dig the vampires.