Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.

Alexander Hamilton

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

William Hazlitt

I don't believe in smart and stupid. But I do believe in those who try and does who don't.

Kimiko Minazako

Be more gay, I beseech you!

George Orwell

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.

Benjamin Franklin

But you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know, that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

Constance Baker Motley

Richard Bach with this book does two things. He gives me Flight. He makes me Young. For both I am deeply grateful.

Ray Bradbury

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

William C. Bryant

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Robert A. M. Stern

I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

Terence