That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.