If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

Blush, happy maiden, when you feel The lips which press love's glowing seal; But as the slow years darklier roll, Grown wiser, the experienced soul Will own as dearer far than they The lips which kiss the tears away.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . . Should the General raise his left hand as he has raised his right, it would point to a quarter of the city that forms a haven for the oppressed and suppressed of foreign lands. In the cause of national or personal freedom they have found refuge here, and the patriot who made it for them sits his steed, overlooking their district, while he listens through his left ear to vaudeville that caricatures the posterity of the proteges.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.