The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.