Quotes to inspire and reflect

Art is the Indispensible medium for the communication of a moral idea.

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives.

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Even the longest day has its end. Irish Proverb Beware the man of one book.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?

Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

All would live long, but none would be old.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.

A pretty woman is a welcome guest.

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.