Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
A Cynic is what an Optimist calls a Realist
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
Originality is merely an illusion.
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.