Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Be that self which one truly is.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Boards don't hit back.
They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.