The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.