"You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong."

"We become what we think about all day long."

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday."

"Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind."

"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried."

"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing"

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read."

"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."

"If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it."

"Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob."

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

"Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes."