The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

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.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

The day of individual happiness has passed

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.