I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Give up trying to make me give up

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.