What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I didn't even breathe.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.