No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home