The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.