We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Can't never could do anything. Till could came along and whipped Can't butt... now can't can do a lot.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Unhappy France! Unhappy King!

The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.

The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power. How naive the cliche that money is the root of evil!

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?.

Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.

When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. .

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne.

Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day, Like a tired monarch fann'd to rest, 'Mid the cool airs of Evening lay; While round his couch's golden rim The gaudy clouds, like courtiers, crept-- Struggling each other's light to dim, And catch his last smile e'er he slept.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. .

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.