I do like to treat myself, I just don't do it very often.
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
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.
Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.
No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer and more interesting. I think if we can expand that attitude to embrace African-Americans and Latino-Americans and Asian-Americans, then we will be in a position where all our kids can feel comfortable with the worlds they are coming out of, knowing they are part of something larger.
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice. . . Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other.