Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity

What's the bravest thing you ever did?He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

Better a little with righteousnessthan much gain with injustice.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.

The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.

Instruct the mothers of the French people.

My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America.

what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.