We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Beauty without expression is boring.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

America is a country of young men.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.