New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Humility is attentive patience.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Be that self which one truly is.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.