An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

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

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

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

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.