Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.