In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

We cannot escape history.