Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

A young mark twain on the make: "I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only a few will LEAD

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.

The time is now, the person is you.

Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done.