The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends.

Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.