Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend, and every foe.

Nature can be modified by nurture, even dogs can cease to relish meat when they are trained to relish only vegetarian food.

America was established not to create wealth, but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders, smooth as ravens claws.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but I am afraid it is not going to be a success.

I never forget a face but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

Evil is easy and has infinite forms.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems, and remember no one can get the jump on the future.

When the blandishments of life are gone, the coward creeps to death - the brave lives on.

Search