All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

That which costs little is less valued.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

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.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful