Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

Revolution is not a dinner party.

The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself.

Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Raise the urinals.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!

Best fishing in troubled waters.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin.

The true beginning of our end. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.