A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.