No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.