Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Worrying doesn’t change anything.Focus your energy on the outcomeyou do want and then do whatyou can to make it happen.

Life is not what you wish it to be, rather it’s what you make it.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

I am wedded to who I am.

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.

It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.

Now I will have less distraction.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.