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

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

That which costs little is less valued.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Humility is attentive patience.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.