Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
It is a shameful thing to insult a child.
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.
I am not an American. I am the American.
[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.