You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

[Americans] are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behin

You get what you pay for.

We're living in a golden age. All you need is gold.

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