He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.

So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!

As the master so the valet.

So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service -- just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Hate is not a good counselor.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.