Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

Thoughts rule the world.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.