No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
We do not have to be victims of circumstance.
Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.
You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.
We are the first men of a Future that has not materialized. We belong to a "great age" that has not "come off". We moved too quickly for the world. We set too sharp a pace.