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.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.