"Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified."

"There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many."

"The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the cropsa€”no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."

"The reward for a thing well done is to have done it."

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

"PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it."

"Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish."

"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep."

"Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it."