It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

No day is without its innocent hope.