I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Opposition is the very spur of love.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

Glory is the child of peril.

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.

There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

Don't feel sorry because my life is over. Be happy that it happened.

For me, I never abandoned the truck. Even though I’ve opened other things, the truck is still the lifeblood of who I am. That’s because I enjoy it. I believe in it. It’s everything that I am.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.