" Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥21SharePinTweet1 SharesPositive
" Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥289SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥23SharePinTweet11 SharesInspirational QuotesQuotes Gallery
" None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥26SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship ine in this?" ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥297SharePinTweet0 SharesFriendshipPositive
" Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Nobody has ever expected me to be president. In my poor, lean lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥22SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥23SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?" ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
