No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
Freedom is from within.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
