Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Whatever task that you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except in the consciousness of doing your best. -Bernard M. Baruch.

The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms.

Success is when reality exceeds expectations.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my colour.

For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Violence is as American as cherry pie.

Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier than we are. Would I not be a criminal if, notwithstanding this view, I should provide for progeny, i.e. for unfortunates? [Ger., Ich verachte die Menschheit in allen ihren Schichten; ich sehe es voraus, dass unsere Nachkommen noch weit unglucklicher sein werden, als wir. Sollte ich nicht ein Sunder sein, wenn ich trotz dieser Ansicht fur Nachkommen, d.h. fur Ungluckliche sorgte?