The worthy gentleman , who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

like father, like son.

Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

It is alright to be disappointed, but a winner can never allow himself to be discouraged.

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.

And do these objectors mean to say that, because God has redeemed us from the curse of the law, therefore we owe him nothing, we have no duty now to him? Has not redemption rather made us doubly debtors? We owe him more than ever: we owe his holy law more than ever; more honor, more obedience. Duty has been doubled, not canceled, by our being delivered from the law; and he who says that duty has ceased, because deliverance has come, knows nothing of duty, or law, or deliverance.

He was utterly without ambition . He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.