All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.