We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it, Dissolute man. Lave in it--drink of it Then, if you can.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least, But each with its own heart and mind, Each of its own distinctive kind, Yet each a part and none the whole, But all together form one soul, That soul Our Country at its best, No North, no South, no East, no West, No yours, no mine, but always Ours, Merged in one Power our lesser powers, For no one's favor, great or small, But all for Each and each for All.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off."

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide nothing can be done.

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience.

"Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart."

The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.

we fork ourselves to death with the tines with which we spear the muscles of innocent animals.

Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in him.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in.