Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time. |
We acquire the strength we have overcome. |
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. |
We all boil at different degrees |
We all live amid surfaces, and the true art is to skate well on them. |
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. |
We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. |
We are always getting ready to live, but never living |
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. |
We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others. |
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. |
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. |
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. |
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. |
We are the prisoners of ideas. |