It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

Make your vacation your vocation.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to?" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.