If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.