The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.