What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.

America is a country of young men.

The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.