Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.