Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. 

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Those who oppose change are addicted to the luxury of their comfort zone.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and become the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. 

We found ourselves in a soup, when the waiter spilled the soup we ordered, on us!