You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.