Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.