Of all the horrid hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase 'I told you so'.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Man is a universe within himself.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

For other nations utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered, for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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