We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

Don't let people see when you're mad - just smile and laugh.

The more I take care of myself, the more prosperous I am.

Thinking about Heaven can inspire and encourage us to be more heavenly-minded and realize that Heaven is a real place where we're really going to live.

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.

I find ways to make things affordable. If the kids want the looks, they can be able to go afford it.

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.