Friend Quotes

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

Pure mathematics is,

in its way,

the poetry of logical ideas.

Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.

Over grown military establishments are

under any form of government inauspicious to liberty,

and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Good friends,

good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those

who have no capacity for living now.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Time is an illusion.

Lunchtime doubly so.

My wife was afraid of the dark...

then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education

and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry

shall become much more general than at present,

and should be gratified to have it in my power

to contribute something to the advancement of

any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate

the happy period.

Nature has a heart for all that live.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel

that has crushed it.

I’ve always been a bit of a loner.

Defeat is a state of mind;

no one is ever defeated until

defeat has been accepted as a reality.

I start early and I stay late,

day after day,

year after year.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,

but because he loves what is behind him.

I love the poorly educated.

Fate is nothing but the deeds,

committed in a prior state of existence.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves;

and under the rule of a just God,

cannot long retain it.

Two roads diverged in a wood,

and I—I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.