You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Hate can pardon more than love.

However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.