Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

Temper never mellows with age and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Life an age to the miserable and a moment to the happy.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness, even virtue even beauty is mysterious.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

I do believe in self-help.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her half her strength must be concealment.

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