I'm not a good lover, but at least I'm fast.
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
The opposite of compromise is character.
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.