I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

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