Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.
You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
All true wealth is biological.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.