There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.

You will stir up the hornets.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.

Thinking men cannot be ruled.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.

Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

Your smile lights up a room like a candle in the dark. I can still hear the song of your laughter.

Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.