Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

They are slaves who fear to speak,For the fallen and the weak.

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.