It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad.

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free, The shrine of each patriot's devotion, A world offers homage to them.

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman--and each nation--must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.

Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew; And whom the curious painter doth pursue Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks, And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks.

Grace is the divine ability to cope with every circumstance.

Blind zeal can only do harm.

What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

Comparisons are odorous. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.