Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
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.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
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.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
