The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle Two game cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard. One at last put the other to flight. The vanquished Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner, while the conqueror, flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might. An Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him and carried him off in his talons. The vanquished Cock immediately came out of his corner, and ruled henceforth with undisputed mastery. Pride goes before destruction.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

For many are called, but few are chosen.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

That each pull'd different ways with many an oath, "Arcades ambo," id est--blackguards both.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths, And tell them.

Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea of an exposure of what in you is yet unknown to yourself -- an exposure that may redound to the glory of the truth by making you ashamed and humbled?... Are you willing to be made glad that you were wrong when you thought others were wrong?... We may trust God with our past as heartily as with our future. It will not hurt us so long as we do not try to hide things, so long as we are ready to bow our heads in hearty shame where it is fit that we should be ashamed. For to be ashamed is a holy and blessed thing. Shame is a thing to shame only those who want to appear, not those who want to be. Shame is to shame those who want to pass their examination, not those who would get into the heart of things... To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

I am not a Virginian but an American.

The Ass and the Frogs AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As he was crossing through the water he lost his footing, stumbled and fell, and not being able to rise on account of his load, groaned heavily. Some Frogs frequenting the pool heard his lamentation, and said, What would you do if you had to live here always as we do, when you make such a fuss about a mere fall into the water? Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.