The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

I can't do everything, but that won't stop me from doing the little I can do.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.