Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which we go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

A crumb from a winner's table is better than a feast from a loser's table!

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it has stopped snowing.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards.

Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call "genius" has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart. -John Adams.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions" that get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.

Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.