Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
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.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
