Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.
Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.
One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.
Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak.
Life is a dead-end street.
Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death.
Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when you come to the end you have nothing.
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. -B. C. Forbes.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -Carl Sandburg.
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom -Christopher Morley.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.