The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Happiness is just like a glacier-the visible one eighth tip sitting on seven eighth mass of pain and suffering under the surface

The world needs more beautiful things.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him.

Racism is a big problemCreated by small minds

A slander is like a hornet if you cannot kill it dead the first blow better not strike at it.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.