Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

Great necessities call out great virtues.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also.

Clothes aren't going to change the world, the women who wear them will

Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

This is my dream and I'm living it. I've never wanted to do anything else except write songs and perform them

Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.