What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

If I were blind I'd rather have another blind person leading me around because they know what I'm dealing with and they're experiencing the same things.

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

We have spilt an ocean of blood for the brotherhood and unity of our peoples and we shall not allow anyone to touch or destroy it from within.

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.