Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

Your universe grows when you are learning.

You ought to dare great things.

What the proponents of prostitution conveniently ignore is that lack of opportunity is lack of choice.

[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come.

The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him.

Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.