The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

Nothing falsifies history more than logic.

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples’ production.

To know the Truth is to be truly free.

His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.

Even the klan revamped their image by losing the hoods and changing their name to the Tea Party.

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

Passion pursues; love surrenders.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.