The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one, Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.

We often see further through a tear, than through a telescope.

I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.

Money doesn't sleep.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

The church has failed to follow her appointed pathway of separation, holiness, heavenliness and testimony to an absent but coming Christ; she has turned aside from that purpose to the work of civilizing the world, building magnificent temples, and acquiring earthly power and wealth, and, in this way, has ceased to follow in the footsteps of Him who had not where to lay His head.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

The map is not the territory.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.