Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

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.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.