Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.