History doesn't repeat, but it surely rhymes.

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

A scepter snatched with an unruly hand must be as boisterously maintained as gained; and he that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

We have more machinery of government that is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.