In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.
Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Our first and last love is self-love.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.
Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.