No man ever repented on his deathbed of being a Christian.

In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

Faith, I know nothing about it, I am my own ancestor.

if at first you don't succeed, try try again.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need do to lose weight is to take a bath.

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

"There beauty half her glory veils, In cabs, those gondolas on wheels."

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.

Genius is patience.

Progress is The law of life, man is not Man as yet.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art.