A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.

With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

All the fatt's in the fire.

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

Caesarism is democracy without liberty.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

You only live once; but if you do it right, once is enough.

Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Dixi I have spoken

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise.