Heights Quotes

Lead by example,

not just by words.

Manners require time,

and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

We don’t win anymore.

But we’re going to start winning again.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles...

by the ears,

by the heels,

or any other way you can manage it.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana

is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl;

we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg

than by smashing it.

Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally,

it comes from what you do consistently.

My wife can't cook at all.

She made chocolate mousse.

An antler got stuck in my throat.

Even kings and emperors,

with mountains of property and oceans of wealth

these are not even equal to an ant,

who does not forget God.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope.

He wants to reform the world.

When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world,

but he knows he can't.

stars are fire, stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

The less effort,

the faster and more powerful you will be.

I believe that without

memories there is no life

and that our memories

should be of happy times.

Good Morning

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true;

but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures,

and I have never spoken with

intentional disrespect of religion in general,

or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

There is another old poet whose name

I do not now remember who said,

'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it.

Among the friends of Union,

there is great diversity of sentiment

and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Expectations are a form of first class truth:

If people believe it, it’s true.

The leading rule for the lawyer,

as for the man of every calling,

is diligence.

When at last we are sure,

You've been properly pilled,

Then a few paper forms,

Must be properly filled.

So that you and your heirs,

May be properly billed.