Beware of long arguments and long beards.

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.