I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Seeming to do is not doing.

There is always a better way.

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

Work while others are wishing.