Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.
I leave from where the apostle arrived.