The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

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.

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

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.