You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
William Empson
A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
Eliot Engel
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Epicurus
I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the... →
Jacob Epstein