They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Be not solitary, be not idle

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.

Truth that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom

I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war, [Barack] Obama made the more serious error of withdrawing his troops from Iraq early.

We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.

Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

Ask yourself: Where do I want to go? Recognize where you are now, then figure out the steps to get there.

The trap does not work until all the parts were there. The system itself doesn't work until you fit all of them together.

If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger?