In oratory the will must predominate.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prision, I am not free. -Eugene V Debs.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even; A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven?

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Young in limbs, in judgment old. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been.

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.