The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di