When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
You are not yet able to serve men, how can you serve spirits?
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Every love's the love before in a duller dress.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag & exaggeration.
Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle
America is a lonely crock of shit...
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.