There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

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

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.