Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

A home without books is a body without soul.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.