great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

Let your joy be unconfined!