Most people would succeed above themselves.

That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions and other races, and have had enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the universal beneficence of the Creator.

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

Most people would succeed above themselves.