There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

Idleness induces caprice.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.