Folks never understand the folks they hate.
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade`s no easier to make than an oak.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.