Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.