A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!