Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

Got one foot in the grave.

All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.

Love is the only fire hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creature's will.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.

The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

got a frog in your throat?

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

Thomas Jefferson still survives.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Clouds that thunder do not always rain.

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace. -Vernon Baker.

Good hands (sports cliche).