Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

I am nothing, truth is everything.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.