The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.

Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

God finds himself by creating.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.