Defeat may be victory in disguise.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.