Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.

Calamity was ordained for man.

What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.