True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Opposition is the very spur of love.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

Glory is the child of peril.

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

Religion is just mind control.

Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.

If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

A good general chooses his battlefield.