In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.
Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.