What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.