The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.