Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

For the sake of domestic peace, liberalism aims at democratic government. Democracy is therefore not a revolutionary institution. On the contrary it is the very means of preventing revolution and civil wars. It provides a method for the peaceful adjustment of government to the will of the majority.

Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."

But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man.

Music inflames temperament.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee; Betwixt the stirrop and the ground, Mercy I askt, mercy I found.

I dote on his very absence.

If you had your life to live over again--you'd need more money.

A blockhead, bit by fleas, put out the light, And chuckling cried, "Now you can't see to bite."

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-red The stripes forever gleam; Snow-white and soul-white-- The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright-- The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.

No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Do you have peanutbutter in your ears?

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.