Heights Quotes

The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

I do not think you can name many great inventions

that have been made by married men.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than

it is loved by the good.

Every child is an artist.

The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Those who can make you believe absurdities

can make you commit atrocities.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by

all and thought to include all; but now,

to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal,

it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till,

if its framers could rise from their graves,

they could not at all recognize it.

Where there's hope,

there's life.

It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

Imperfection is beauty,

madness is genius,

and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Man is condemned to be free.

In skating over thin ice

our safety is in our speed.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

We’re not here to take part;

we’re here to take over.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow;

there is no humor in Heaven.

Happy trails to you,

until we meet again.

That our government should have been maintained in its original

form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at.

It had many props to support it through that period,

which now are decayed and crumbled away.

Through that period,

it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now,

it is understood to be a successful one.

Heaven cannot brook two suns,

nor earth two masters.

You can’t cheat the grind;

it knows how much you’ve invested.

All things are artificial artificial, for nature is the art of God.

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.

I’m not a big fan of the spotlight.