Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad.... Because I did all I could, there was nothing more to do.
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.
I mix them with my brains, sir.
'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
I can always make it a rule to get there first with the most men.
Iron sharpeneth man; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
One religion is as true as another.
Discontent is want of self-discipline; it is infirmity of will.
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Technology - the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.