Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you

When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

When dogs are actually looking at you, they're essentially hugging you with their eyes.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

I am basically a private person.

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.