The pursuit of truth will set you free, even if you never catch up with it.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

I can not dial 911. There's no 11 on my phone.

Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom. - Lord Byron ,

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, Still on their dinner turn-- Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home, And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Describing an opposing team: Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet.

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.