I am very little of a traveler.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.