Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest, For time will teach thee soon the truth, "There are no birds in last year's nest."

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

All's fair in love and war.

The poppies hung Dew-dabbed on their stalks.

Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health.

And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, And dressed myself in such humility That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts, Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths Even in the presence of the crowned king.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

The history of the denial of the Armenian genocide has passed through several phases... all characterized by efforts to avoid responsibility and the moral, material, and political consequences of admission.

I mix them with my brains, sir.

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative.