The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.
[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable
Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.
I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.
On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!