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.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

The gift without the giver is rare.

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