We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
Religion without joy-it is no religion.
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.
Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
My home office and workshop are on an overlook on the only deep river gorge on the entire length of the Mississippi River.
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.