The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.
You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.
Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.
The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.
Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.
When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.
The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.