There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.