A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Money comes to those who act intelligently, and God to those who hunger for his grace

History is made by those who see beyond what already exists. They see all the things that don’t yet.

it's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that.

Beginnings are happy never-endings as long as you remember where you started from.

They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side.

The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first place and the state has taken.

in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

Boston is not an avant garde place. It stays literally 15 to 20 years behind New York at all times.

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.