Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies

They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

The virtuous shall have the power to revive and live again. All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and in course of time they are again sent down to inhabit righteous bodies

Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10).

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair.

Here we raise his children for him, cook for him, bring up his crops, butcher his hogs - even fight his wars for him - and he still won't acknowledge our existence.

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

I don't think I have reached a plateau. I have just reached the level where I am today. But I need to go above it.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person.

You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.