The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.