The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

Too big to cry too young to laugh.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.