Revolutions never go backward.

How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?

You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, "No Shit!" or at least, "No kidding!".

And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security.

A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business, To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

Dedication is not what others expect of you; it is what you can give to others.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Red ruin and the breaking-up of all.