“Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.”

“God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotio...”

“Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it. ”

“Society is built upon trust.”

“Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.”

“Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“Wise are my ways witty my actions”

“I believe in only one thing,the power of human will.”

“Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”