Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.