Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

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 success of liberty.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.