True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.