Quotes 261 till 280 of 848.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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However hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
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I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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I believe absence is a great element of charm.
Endymion (1880) -
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
Individual Liberty -
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
Lothair (1870) ch. 30 -
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
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I hope our young men will not grow into such dodgers as these old men are. I believe everything that a young man says to me (p. 250).
Letters -
I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
Individual Liberty -
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
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I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Speech in Rutland, Vermont (28 August 1891) as reported in The New York Times (29 August 1891), p. 5 -
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
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