The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. -David Hume.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

If you don't like the way you were born, try being born again.

Charity well directed should begin at home.

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.

Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...

A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I'm all ears.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.