Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?
It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.
Yeah, I might remaster it, in fact I'm sure I would. But all the songs will be the same.
Write a page a day. It will add up.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.