The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

An idea is salvation by imagination

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Effective action is always unjust.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.