To make a mountain of a mole-hill.

The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well.

When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable "animated instrument" which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

You get out in front -- you stay out in front.

All great ideas are dangerous.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Human face divine.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Pride has a greater share than goodness of heart in the remonstrances we make to those who are guilty of faults; we reprove, not so much with a view to correcting them, as to persuade them that we are exempt from those faults ourselves.

The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.