"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."

"We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy."

"Boys don't make passes at female smartasses."

"If the shoe fits, it's too expensive."

"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."

"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves."

"Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal."

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others."

"Your body is just the place your memory calls home."

"Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else."

"Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others."