How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if read more

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to read more

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Roads are just a suggestion, like pants.

Roads are just a suggestion, like pants.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies read more

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike read more

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.