My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
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.
Each soul is potentially divine.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
