Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
Fate loves the fearless.
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Light is the symbol of truth.
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
