No work of art can compare to a city.
A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not where safe belong.
If she were lying on a plate with a herring, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Morale still seems reasonably high and, while the desertion rate has risen, it is still limited to those who can walk.
The world may or may not be with our purpose. But its not totally without some kind of magic.
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance.
How to make god laugh. Tell him your future plans.
I told him to be fruitful and multiply, but not in those words.
The only alternative which every American thinks of is liberty or death.
It has come to pass that the longest sword must decide the contest.
“Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.”
“I must study Politics and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematics and Philosophy.”
“There are two types of education… One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.”
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.