If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.