America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.
It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.
Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.
For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.