Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

The world exists for the education of each man.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.