Death Quotes

There are several good protections against temptation,

but the surest is cowardice.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

A lot of times, people don't know

what they want until you show it to them.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.

Lazy people may look busy,

but they are only wasting time.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Everything takes me

longer than I expect.

It's the sad truth

About life.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Friendship with ones

self is all important,

because without it one

cannot be friends with

anyone else in the world.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious,

but the desire to reach hearts is wise.

A typical vice of American politics is

the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Perfection is not attainable,

but if we chase perfection

we can catch excellence.

I didn't attend the funeral,

but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Don’t let anyone silence your story.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.

You,

who have it to see,

welcome it—and forget not those who have fallen during the night.

The strong creation created

by God in the world is not

the lion, not the elephant,

not the tiger

the girl.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us

dreamers and indolent...

It is good to begin life poor;

it is good to begin life rich

these are wholesome;

but to begin it prospectively rich!

The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.