A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Common sense is not so common.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
Fashion changes, but style endures.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.