In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.