The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.