It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

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

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

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

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.