The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

Success is 99 percent failure.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. -M. Scott Peck.

Aspire to inspire before you expire.

The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice.

Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch; Smiling I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.

These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' th' alehouse.

Happiness is being married to your best friend.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.

Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free ?

Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this, A man to hav bent in prosperite, And it remembren whan it passed is.

Eat to your heart’s content.

Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia . . . they seemed to be written in sunbeams.