Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and...

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

We all boil at different degrees.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

There is properly no history, only biography.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as...

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.